# طمر
## Arabic

* Root
* ط م ر (ṭ m r)
* 5 terms

### Verb

طَمَرَ • (ṭamara) I (non-past يَطْمِرُ (yaṭmiru), verbal noun طَمْر (ṭamr) or طُمُور (ṭumūr)) (obsolete)
* to rise, to leap upwards, to spring
** a. 1059, by Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Maʿarri
    وَلَيْسَ الطِمِرُّ سِوَى مَا طَمَرwa-laysa ṭ-ṭimirru siwā mā ṭamarThere is nothing swift that does not leap.

#### Conjugation
### Verb

طَمِرَ • (ṭamira) I (non-past يَطْمَرُ (yaṭmaru), verbal noun طَمَر (ṭamar)) (obsolete)
* to become inflated, to become swollen, to intumesce

#### Conjugation
### Verb

طَمَرَ • (ṭamara) I (non-past يَطْمِرُ (yaṭmiru) or يَطْمُرُ (yaṭmuru), verbal noun طَمْر (ṭamr))
* to bury, to landfill, to embed, to inter, to slam

#### Conjugation
### Verb

طَمَّرَ • (ṭammara) II (non-past يُطَمِّرُ (yuṭammiru), verbal noun تَطْمِير (taṭmīr))
* to fold up, to roll up
* to groom, to currycomb
* to lock up, to put into the silo (مَطْمُورَة (maṭmūra))

#### Conjugation
### Noun

طَمْر • (ṭamr) m
* verbal noun of طَمَرَ (ṭamara) (form I)

#### Declension
### Noun

طَمَر • (ṭamar) m
* verbal noun of طَمِرَ (ṭamira) (form I)

#### Declension
### Noun

طِمْر • (ṭimr) m (plural أَطْمَار (ʔaṭmār))
* tatter, worn-out garment

#### Declension
### Adjective

طِمِرّ • (ṭimirr) (feminine طِمِرَّة (ṭimirra))
* swift, fleet, of active legs
** a. 1059, by Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Maʿarri
    وَلَيْسَ الطِمِرُّ سِوَى مَا طَمَرwa-laysa ṭ-ṭimirru siwā mā ṭamarThere is nothing swift that does not leap.

#### Declension
## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* طامار (damar), طمار (damar), دامار (damar)

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tamïr (“vein, root”); cognate with Azerbaijani damar, Bashkir тамыр (tamır), Chuvash тымар (tymar), Kazakh тамыр (tamyr), Kyrgyz тамыр (tamır), Turkmen damar, Uyghur تومۇر (tomur), Uzbek tomir and Yakut тымыр (tımır).

### Noun

طمر • (damar)
* vein, a blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart
    Synonyms: رگ (reg), عرق (ʿırk)
* vein, a stripe, line, streak, stratum, or duct of a different colour or composition in materials
* (figuratively) temperament, disposition, a person's normal manner of thinking or behaving
    Synonyms: خوی (huy), طبع (tabʼ), عرق (ʿırk), مزاج (mizac)

#### Derived terms

* آق طمر (ak damar, “nerve”)
* باش طمری (baş damarı, “jugular vein”)
* شاه طمر (şah damar, “artery”)
* صو طمری (su damarı, “vein of water”)
* طمرجق (damarcık, “veinlet, venula”)
* طمرسز (damarsız, “nerveless, slack”)
* طمرلی (damarlı, “venous”)
* یپراق طمری (yaprak damarı, “vein of a leaf”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: damar
* → Albanian: damar
* → Aromanian: dãmar
* → Bulgarian: дама́р (damár)
* → Greek: νταμάρι (ntamári)
* Kurdish:
    → Northern Kurdish: demar
* → Laz: დამარი (damari)
* → Macedonian: дамар (damar)
* → Middle Armenian: տամար (tamar)
** Armenian: տամար (tamar), դամար (damar)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: да̏мар
    Latin script: dȁmar

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “damar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1091
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طمر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 314b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طامار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 795
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vena”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1726
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طمر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3125
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “damar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طمر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1245